Kerry Hines - Young Country / 1 August - 6 September 2015

Young Country is a fresh and engaging exhibition that brings together nineteenth-century photography and contemporary poetry to offer a new and often surprising view of New Zealand’s past.

The images are the work of William Williams, a Railways employee who photographed widely throughout New Zealand from 1881 until the 1940s. His outstanding photographs reflect the rawness of New Zealand’s landscape as well as its beauty, and offer intriguing portraits of family and friends at work, home and play. Kerry Hines has researched Williams’s work and written poems to accompany a selection of his photographs.

Uniquely, the exhibition presents the images in the form of contemporary albumen prints made specifically for the show by Wayne Barrar is an internationally recognised photographer and Associate Professor (Photography) at the School of Art, Massey University, Wellington. Williams’ principal archive, held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, consists mainly of negatives. On a few occasions albumen exhibition prints have been made overseas using ‘historic’ negatives, but it appears that Young Country may be the first time this has been done in New Zealand.

Kerry Hines is a New Zealand poet, writer and researcher whose work has been published in books and literary journals here and overseas. Young Country draws on her PhD in creative writing (Victoria University, 2012). The exhibition is accompanied by a book, Young Country (Auckland University Press, 2014). Development of the exhibition was supported by Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast. It is toured by Exhibition Services Ltd.

Exhibitions

Above the Long White Cloud: Whites Aviation / 25 March - 7 May 2017

Drawn from the collection of the New Zealand Museum of the Everyday, 'Above the Long White Cloud: Whites Aviation', explores the commercial success, technological innovation and photographic artistry of Whites Aviation, and considers its impact on the New Zealand home of the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Nicolas Dillon: Observing Nature – the touring version Based on Dillon’s major 2015 survey exhibition, Observing Nature, the Millennium Public Art Gallery has developed a new, smaller exhibition which will travel to public art galleries and museums in other regions after its Marlborough showing.

Selling the Dream - The Art of Early New Zealand Tourism / 7 February - 20 March 2016

Before television and colour photography, poster art was the most popular advertising mechanism. 'Selling the Dream' is the first dedicated and extensive celebration of tourism posters and other publicity.

An exhibition of drawings, paintings and monoprints by celebrated NZ artist Stanley Palmer. These works were created from sketches and paintings completed during his recent trip to Gallipoli in 2014. Stanley draws on his personal connection that saw both his Father and Uncle serve in Gallipoli.

Public and Private: Photographs of People / 1 July - 1 October 2017

Public and Private depicts people. The private photographs are those we commission or take ourselves. The public ones are those that are taken on our behalf or for other people. Developed and toured by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Closed for annual maintenance / 2-9 October 2017

Serious Fun, The Art of Picture Books / 21 June – 27 July 2014

This exhibition features Illustrations by best-selling, entertaining illustrator, Donovan Bixley, with works by the finalists of the most recent Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for emerging illustrators.

Kermadec - Lines in the Ocean / 6 December 2014 - January 2015

Nine artists explore the South Pacific. The exhibition's works reflect a wide range of approaches and responses, as well as using a range of media including video, tapa-making, painting, photography, etching, film, sound-recording and poetry.

Art + Wine + Festival / 1 February - 16 March 2014

Places, N Z Printmakers / 26 October - 1 December 2013

A group exhibition by New Zealand printmakers whose work is concerned with landscape and the environment. Artists featured come from Marlborough and throughout New Zealand: Craig Bluett, Dee Copland, Inge Doesburg, Kim Lowe, Wendy Murphy, Jo Ogier, Stanley Palmer, Ben Reid, and Marilynn Webb.

Mirek Smisek, 60 years 60 pots / 15 September - 29 October 2012

Three - Green, Maguire, Schotanus / 15 September - 29 October 2012

New ceramic work by Janet Green, Fran Maguire and Sara Schotanus Three individual exhibitions in one gallery. Ceramic artists Janet Green, Fran Maguire and Sara Schotanus have worked for more than two years to plan this shared exhibition.

Don Binney, Ocean's Edge / 5 May - 17 June 2012

Don Binney's exhibition, Ocean's Edge, is an evolution from the touring exhibition Drawing the Waitakere Coast which was presented at public art galleries in Nelson and Gore. Ocean's Edge features coastal areas around New Zealand including Marlborough.

This delightful exhibition presented by the Te Tai Tamariki Trust showcases the work of New Zealand children's book illustrators Gavin Bishop, Robin Kahukiwa and Murray Grimsdale. Each of these artisits work has strong ties with Tikanga Maori.

Maori weapons, tea cups, doilies and jugs are a few aspects of the second take on Claim to Clay - a joint exhibition by Auckland-based painter Joanna Fieldes and Marlborough ceramic artist Fran Maguire.

Graham Percy, The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy / 22 July - 28 August 2011

The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy is a major touring exhibition showcasing the charming and immensely entertaining artwork of ex-pat New Zealand illustrator, designer and typographer Graham Percy (1938-2008). Developed and toured by Gregory O'Brien and Exhibition Services Tours.

Local Figures, portraits and figurative works / 18 June - 17 July 2011

Local Figures is an exhibition of portraits and figurative works on loan from Marlborough collections. Several feature local people. All of these works belong to the private collections of Gallery supporters.

From Land and Sea / 7 May - 12 June 2011

Sir Mountford T Woollaston KB, Woollaston 101 / 19 March - 1 May 2011

Woollaston 101 is a historically important exhibition curated by staff at Nelson's public art gallery, The Suter. Toss Woollaston (Sir Mountford Tosswill Woollaston, 1910-1998) is regarded both as one of New Zealand's foremost expressionist landscape.

A New Page, New Illustrators / 5 February - 13 March 2011

The A New Page exhibition features the work of nine talented illustrators at the beginning of their careers. It is designed to emphasise the educational aspect of Te Tai Tamariki and the planning and preparation of a picture book will be a major feature.

The very popular Adam Portraiture Awards exhibition, sponsored by the Adam Foundation and presented by the Portrait Gallery of New Zealand in Wellington, is a wonderfully colourful celebration of New Zealand culture.

Frank Barnes, A Shepherd and his Ships / 28 August - 3 October 2010

Earthwaulks, Aotearoa Felters / 28 August - 3 October 2010

The Aotearoa Felters or Feltsisters hail from the islands of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand [their chosen common ground]. Their current collaboration, Earthwaulks, explores nature dyes and fibres.

Marlborough Children as Artists Exhibition / 5 June - 11 July 2010

Impressions - Marlborough Youth Art 2010 / 5 June - 11 July 2010

This annual project is collaboration between the Gallery, the Marlborough District Council and Marlborough youth. Impressions provides an opportunity for young people to be involved in the development and management of an arts project.

The artist's drawn copy of a portrait by Picasso, paintings by Henri Matisse, and ladies lifted from Antoine Watteau pictures are some of the elements that play a part in these recent works by Nigel Buxton.

Off The Page! / 6 February - 14 March 2010

Michael Hight - Recent Paintings / 6 February - 14 March 2010

Michael Hight's work considers the notion of the beehive as a metaphor for transformation. Set within rural New Zealand landscapes, stacks of hives become the main protagonist within each of his scenes.

Lucien Rizos was born in Wellington in 1953. Although he has been taking photographs for many years and has amassed a vast body of work (much of which is housed in the National Library archives), he seldom shows his work.

Marian Maguire, The Labours of Herakles / 15 November - 14 December 2008

Having arrived via the Endeavour during Maguire's first popular series, The Odyssey of Captain Cook, shown at the Gallery in 2006, the ancient Greeks in The Labours of Herakles resolve to settle the New Land.

'New Urban Realists' explores aspects of everyday urban life. The featured artists are painters who specialise in photo-realism, and each offers images that confront the viewer with familiar aspects of contemporary urban reality.

Collection / 2 May - 26 July 2015

Brian Brake: Lens on China and Japan / 1 August - 6 September 2015

Brian Brake is widely regarded as New Zealand’s most successful international photographer. His career spanned forty years, from the 1940s to his death in 1988. This exhibition offers two slices from Brian Brake’s career: photographs of China in late 1950s, and those of Japan in 1963 and 1964.